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Pavlos_Parisis_
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Nov 16, 2010

ICAP Monitor

Hi,     Does anyone know if it is possible to have a ICAP monitor on BIG-IP LTM 10.2.0?   I am going to have ICAP servers on a pool and I need to have a monitor for them.   I have looked a...
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Artiom_Lichtens's avatar
Artiom_Lichtens
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Hi,

I don't know if this is still relevant to anyone, but I have just used a standard HTTP monitor (since ICAP is clear text as well) and the ICAP OPTIONS method:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3507section-4.10.1

send "OPTIONS icap://ICAP_SERVER ICAP/1.0\r\n\r\n"
recv "ICAP/1.0 200 OK"
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nolipineda
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Feb 20, 2018

Hi Artiom,

 

Thanks for sharing. Would you have an idea if you can replace "ICAP_SERVER" with a variable? Would be good to do if you have multiple AV appliance in a pool.

 

Thanks in advance. :)